COMTEL Project is a program of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) aimed at creating a regional telecommunications infrastructure for the 21 member states via a fiber backbone. This will help member states get rid of satellite links they currently use for their transit traffic between themselves going via Europe, America and Asia.
Implementation
COMESA reportedly made a deal with Anderberg-Ericsson Consortium of Mauritius as the strategic equity partner2 but it was later reported that Ericsson would not become an equity partner.3 On 26 February 2007 it was reported that the COMTEL Project had stalled and that individual member countries would develop their own regional telecommunication infrastructures.4
References
"COMTEL Project Under Intense Scrutiny". www.panapress.com (in French). Retrieved 2018-08-01. http://www.panapress.com/COMTEL-Project-Under-intense-Scrutiny--13-487969-17-lang1-index.html ↩
http://www.balancingact-africa.com/news/en/issue-no-214/telecoms/comesa-selects-ander/en http://www.balancingact-africa.com/news/en/issue-no-214/telecoms/comesa-selects-ander/en ↩
http://www.balancingact-africa.com/news/en/issue-no-262/top-story/heavy-blow-to-comtel/en http://www.balancingact-africa.com/news/en/issue-no-262/top-story/heavy-blow-to-comtel/en ↩
Malakata, Michael. "Comtel project stalls as countries go their own way". Network World. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved 2018-08-01. https://web.archive.org/web/20150402155545/http://www.networkworld.com/article/2295702/data-center/comtel-project-stalls-as-countries-go-their-own-way.html ↩